Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 2 17:20:28 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:16:04AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:11:51AM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Matt Zimmerman (mdz at ubuntu.com):
> > > Maybe I'm weird, but I use dmesg for a lot of "normal" tasks, not just
> > > debugging problems which will require root to fix.  The most common is
> > > probably the traditional "what device node was assigned to that device I
> > 
> > Nothing at all weird about that.
> 
> Aren't we all supposed to use "udisks --enumerate" now? :)

I hadn't used that before.  You got my hopes up, and I thought it might turn
out to be a tool to map device nodes to meaningful descriptions of the
physical devices.  Oh well. :-)

-- 
 - mdz



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